Where does “kohdekieli” come from?

kohdekieli (Finnish) comes from Finnish kohde, from Finnish kohdata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kohdekieli (Finnish): target language

Definitions

  1. target language

Ancestry of “kohdekieli”, step by step

kohdekieli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kohde

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohdetarget; bogey; attraction, sight
2Finnishkohdatato meet with, encounter; to undergo, experience,...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish kieli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkielitongue; language; string
2Proto-Finnickeelitongue; language
3Proto-Uralickäletongue; language
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish kohdata →